Summary: What if Obito never fell under that boulder and lived? What if Kakashi's left eye was never hit and his chakra sword was still intact? What if Rin never disappeared?
Pairings: NaruSaku ObiRin
Chapter 4: Sakura's Training
"Okay Naruto, I'm gonna let you spar against my water clone. If you get a hit in, it means you won the bet." said Kakashi.
"Even if water clones are 10 times weaker than the original this is Kakashi-sensei we're talking about." thought Naruto.
"Mizu bunshin no jutsu!" said Kakashi. "3, 2, 1 GO!" announced Kakashi as both drew their Katana's.
Naruto immediately slashed at Kakashi's clone, which he blocked with his own.
Then while clashing their blades, Naruto tried a kick to throw him of guard but the clone held his foot with his hand.
With only one hand supporting the clone's sword now, Naruto swung his sword extra hard to break trough the clone his guard and immediately tried to get a hit in.
The clone dodged and immediately performed a trust.
"Seems that the clone is also ten times dumber then it's original."
Naruto with surprising agility and balance stepped on the katana's upper flat side, making the clone drop the sword and swung his sword.
Some moments passed.
"Did I miss?" thought Naruto.
Finally the clone smiled and turned into water.
"YEAH! I WON THE BET DATTEBAYO!!! "
"Remarkable, even though the clone held back, I would've expected that it would last longer." thought Kakashi.
"Naruto! You should start your training with Sakura! We can't afford to lose a single second."
"Yosh!"
"If he keeps at it like this, then I'm sure that he will one day achieve his dream. Go make your father proud Naruto and perhaps even surpass him, for I know you can do it."
Later…
"Sakura-chan! I finished my training!" shouted Naruto as Sakura was high in a tree.
"He called me Sakura-chan?" thought Sakura.
When she came down she said "Sure thing Naruto-kun!"
They walked to an open place in the woods.
"Kakashi-sensei gave us these scrolls with Jutsus for us to learn! Isn't it great!" said Naruto eager about learning new techniques.
"Kakashi-sensei said that you have fantastic chakra control so why don't we start with some suiton!" continued Naruto.
"Here's a good one! Suiton: Teppodama! It's a C-rank that turns your chakra into a bullet of water."
They memorized the seals and got ready to try to perform it on a target.
They made 4 seals and both said "Suiton:Teppodama no jutsu!"
Needless to say, it didn't completely work out.
Sakura's bullet just traveled a meter and whole the area in front of Naruto was wet.
They kept trying and were improving bit by bit.
Naruto finally hit the target with a perfect bullet but Sakura was stuck somewhere.
"What am I doing wrong… It doesn't go automatic enough for a jutsu." thought Sakura.
"Sakura-chan, you're doing the second seal wrong." said Naruto.
He carefully grabbed her hands and put them in the right position.
"Naruto-kun… is holding my hands!" thought Sakura.
She tried the technique with Naruto's correction and hit the target right on.
She was exhausted though from using so much chakra.
"Aren't you tired Naruto-kun?" asked Sakura.
"Nah! I have a lot more chakra than the normal ninja my age. I don't quickly get tired from jutsu training." said Naruto.
"Does that mean I'm so much weaker than Naruto-kun?" thought Sakura with sad expression.
"That doesn't mean you're weak or something you know! Did you notice how you got a bullet at the first try while I just spouted water from my mouth? That's cause while you have less chakra you're control is fantastic!" said Naruto noticing Sakura's look.
"Since we still got some time left until training's over, I'd say we practice our seal forming speed!" suggested Naruto.
While they were practicing Naruto said "Sakura-chan, you don't move you're hands far enough from each other when you stop a seal. It's more like this." he said while again carefully holding her arms and making them move correctly.
Sakura blushed as she thought "He's doing it again…"
"Thanks Naruto-kun. It's a lot easier this way!"
That evening at Tazuna's
Naruto was eating like crazy.
Then he noticed Sasuke also with a few bowls next to him.
"How much bowls did you have Sasuke?" asked Naruto.
"4" he replied.
"Same."
They were silent for a moment."Seconds please." they both said at the same time.
They were eating even faster than before.
"Swacunds plase!" was heard constantly as they were competing.
After some lecture of table manners by Kakashi they stopped their competition.
Suddenly Inari began "Why do you people try so hard! Nobody can stand up to Gatou!"
"Gee! Ain't you optimistic!" said Naruto."Shut up! I'm different from you! You don't know anything about my life! You grew up with no real pain!" shouted Inari.
"Damn! Inari's in trouble now!" though Kakashi.
The room's air darkened.
They Naruto sigh and he took his black coat off.
Tazuna and Inari stiffened, Tsunami gasped and the plate she was holding fell right out of her hands and Sasuke and Sakura felt like vomiting.
Naruto's arms were horribly scarred; some would think that there was more scarred skin than normal.
"I got the first when I was 2 years old. They only stopped attacking when I was adopted by my brother. Prior to that, I lived on the streets hated by the whole village. Never knew my parents. Hated for something I didn't want to have…" he said with a neutral tone. "You think you have it bad, but you're just some selfish crybaby… keep crying as the crybaby you are and you'lle achieve nothing" said Naruto putting his coat back on and leaving the room with a completely frozen audience except for Kakashi.
"I'm gonna go to bed…" said Inari shocked.
"Uhh! Dinner's was great Tsunami! Going to bed now!" said a pale Tazuna.
"Ditto!" said Sasuke and Sakura wanting to forget that sight and Naruto's speech.
Later that evening Sakura was outside.
She couldn't sleep as she had way too many questions for Naruto but didn't have the courage to ask them.
"So you couldn't sleep either eh Sakura-chan!" she heard Naruto from behind.
They sat next to each other for a while in silence until Sakura began "Naruto-kun, why do people do such things to you?"
"You could call it some bloodline limit that people don't like. That's all I'm saying." said Naruto in that neutral voice.
She then noticed that he didn't have his coat on again.
He only had a sleeveless black shirt under it so his arms were visible again.
If you didn't look at the numerous scars she saw that he had extremely well toned arms.
She then noticed that he held his arm out in a shaking fashion.
"Best friends?" he asked.
She hestitated for a second but shaked hands and said "Best friends!"
The next days…
Everyone kept their training up.
Naruto started giving Sakura some weights to improve her taijutsu in the first after they stopped the ninjutsu training and in the last days she even practiced some medical jutsu.
Sasuke would train by himself when Kakashi was guarding the bridge.
One day…
"Is Naruto still sleeping!" exclaimed Sasuke mad.
"But Sasuke, Naruto-kun trained really hard that night!" defended Sakura.
"Just let Naruto sleep a bit, he'll find us later." said Kakashi.
When they arrived at the bridge they were shocked to find corpses everywhere.
"Damn! He's back! Surround Tazuna!" ordered Kakashi.
At Tazuna's house…
"Don't take my mom away!!! AAAAAAAAAAA!!!" said Inari charging at the mercenaries.
"Oooh! You gentlemen certainly have your way with women huh!" said Naruto only just awake.
Suddenly he disappeared out of their sight and reappeared later with Tsunami and Inari with him.
"Who the heck are you!" said one of the mercenaries while drew their swords.
They saw a red thin flash and he was suddenly in front of them while their katana's blades were cut off.
"Someone who needs a morning exercise!" said Naruto before punching them in their stomachs and smashing their heads together.
"Gatou's men are on the move, I got to get to the bridge." he thought.
"Inari! I'm going to let you do the rest here, I'll go help my friends on the bridge." said Naruto before racing to the bridge.
At the bridge…
"Haku, if you keep holding back like that those kids will beat you." said Zabuza calmly.
It was true; Sasuke and Sakura were holding Haku off with ease.
"Secret technique! Demonic ice mirrors!" exclaimed Haku.
Mirrors of ice started to spawn from the water as they watched in wonder.
But right before the dome was complete, Sasuke was pushed by someone out of the dome.
"Naruto!" he said surprised.
"You guard Tazuna, I'll take care of this." said Naruto.
Hope you like it!
The first bit of real hints at NaruSaku.
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Naruto wears black pants and a black sleeveless shirt with a black coat like yondaime with the kanji for Uzumaki written in red vertically.
He wears his goggles around his neck (It's attached to an elastic rope) and his headband is attached to his coat.